List of unproblematic plants for starting with fresh feed
1. Well suitable fresh food for beginners
With these plants chinchillas can get used to fresh food (1 leaf, small branch, 1 hazelnut-sized piece).
They are very well degistible and often popular.
| Name |
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Achillea |
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Alder branches |
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Apple |
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Apple branches and all other fruit tree branches |
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Bamboo |
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Basil |
| Bedstraw |
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Berry branches (blueberry, raspberry, blackberry, currant, gooseberry) |
| Birch branches |
| Callisia repens/ Creeping inchplant |
| Carrot and carrot herb |
| Common chickweed |
| Common chicory |
| Daisy |
| Dandelion |
| Dandelion salad/ Catalogna |
| Dead-nettles |
| Hazelnut branches |
| Horseweed |
| Jerusalem artichoke herb |
| Linden branches |
| Plantains (Broadleaf plantain, narrowleaf plantain etc.) |
| Poplar branches |
| Pot marigold |
| Prickly lettuce |
| Radicchio |
| Rocket salad/ arugula/ rucola |
| Shepherd's purse/ Capsella |
| Stinging nettles |
| (Forest) strawberry leaves |
| Thistle (all) |
| Tradescantia/ spiderwort |
| Willows/ sallows banches (all) |
2. Not suitable fresh food for beginners
| Name | Reason |
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Cabbages (broccoli, cauliflower, savoy cabbage, kohlrabi, rapeseed etc.) |
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| Citrus fruits (kiwi, orange, etc.) | |
| Clover (including alfalfa) and other legumes | |
| Conifer branches | |
| Bulbous plants (Allioideae) | |
| Fresh grasses | |
| Slightly poisonous plants like ivy, lilac, glechoma hederacea, etc. | |
| Starchy plants such as potatoes, corn, cereal ears, etc. |